Backstory

I started writing when our son, Tucker, was in the NICU after giving birth to him 4 months early-whoa life. Usually my words plunked out on a keyboard from Tucker’s bed-side in his NICU pod or late at night from our room at the Ronald McDonald House. It was a time of reflection, inspiration and introspection-basically a lot of words ending with “ion” that landed me here, in this fancy pants space writing a shhhh….mommy blog.

In the beginning, posts were mostly about the secret world of parenting a micropreemie-it’s a thing. As Tucker has grown, the post topics have become more random, less mommy and they cover the not-at-all related worlds of adoption, butter cream, burpees and Christmas caroling. See? Now you wanna read. #AmIRight?

Thanks for reading even this far. I’m always happy to have someone else on the team. You’re signing up to bring team snacks right?

Team Hucks in the early days of NICU life

P.S.If you have 11 or so free hours and you want to read our whole story-here is our original Caringbridge site-we kept an online journal the entire time we were in the hospital: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/babyhucks

Who Is This Rookie?

I don't trust people who don't like sweets. Monica Gellar is my spirit animal. I work. I write. I mom. I pray. I wife. I eat. I go. First kid was born at 24 weeks and spent 151 days in the NICU-well that didn't go as planned. He fought and we cheered. I started writing during that time. Second kid was born on a Thursday night-her birthmom's hand in mine both of us crying happy tears. You'll find posts here about cheesecake, adoption, kindergarten shenanigans, hard stuff, Dolly Parton and whatever else I want. And you'll like it young lady. Thanks for reading. I always love adding to the team. Especially if you bring team snacks.